stonyrubbish

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by stonyrubbish 1mo ago
The Bhagavad Gita 18.47: "It is better to do one’s own dharma, even though imperfectly, than to do another’s dharma, even though perfectly."
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by stonyrubbish 1mo ago
From a Hegelian perspective, the concept of the apology inherently is contradictory: for an apology before the act of harm has occurred is always "too early," yet an apology after the act has occurred is always, in some sense, &qu
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by stonyrubbish 2mo ago
I feel like the irony of a post complaining about the death of hacker culture written entirely by ChatGPT pretty well summarizes where we're at.
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by stonyrubbish 2mo ago
> How is this different from other disorders, disabilities, illnesses? Part of the confusion here is that autism isn't straightforwardly a disability. A plurality of people with autism are ASD-1, which is the kind requiring the leas
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by stonyrubbish 2mo ago
I have ASD Level 1, and I definitely don't want to be "cured." I feel like autism has basically given me significantly stronger reasoning, pattern recognition, and systemizing abilities in exchange for being socially a bit we
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by stonyrubbish 2mo ago
I am 23 years old. I studied hard, went to college, got good grades, etc-- "did everything right," as far as older people in my life told me. At 19 I became disabled from a sudden rare condition such that I am now very ill and mos
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by stonyrubbish 6mo ago
They aren't so vague that you would argue the parrot is thinking.
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by stonyrubbish 6mo ago
AI is probably in need of far more legal safeguards than we have now, but I am sort of tired of the "everyone will lose their jobs" narrative. There are so few jobs LLMs can fully automate. I think what will actually happen is tha
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by stonyrubbish 6mo ago
> "I don't trust anyone who claims they're intelligent" doesn't follow from "all they do is <how they work>". It kind of does if how they work is nothing like genuine intelligence. You can (rightl
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by stonyrubbish 6mo ago
Human cognition is nothing like AI "cognition." It really bothers me that people think AI is doing the same thing the human mind does. AI is more like a parrot which is trained to give a correct-looking response to any question. T